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But some liked the crick-stone better for lil baabies than even the Madern brook." "Men-an-tol that stone is called?" "So 'tis, awnly us knaws it as the crick-stone. Theer's a big hole in en, an' if a cheel was passed through nine times runnin', gwaine 'gainst the way of the sun every time, it made en as strong as a lion.
But the roots of these fables burrow back to paganism. Hundreds of weakly infants were passed through Men-an-tol the stone with a hole or the "crick-stone" in the names of saints; and hundreds had already been handed through it centuries before under like appeal to pagan deities.
Here the heath was blasted and scarred with summer fires. Great patches of the waste had been eaten naked by past flames, and Men-an-tol the "crick-stone" past which she progressed, stood with its lesser granite pillars in a dark bed of scorched earth and blackened furze-stems stripped bare by the fire. She stood in a wide, desolate cup of the Cornish moor.
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